Drown your laptop: on office sirens, working from home, and aesthetics of refusal

Wodzinska, Agnieszka

Drown your laptop: on office sirens, working from home, and aesthetics of refusal

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Wodzinska, Agnieszka (2024) Drown your laptop: on office sirens, working from home, and aesthetics of refusal. INC Longform.
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Creators/Authors:

Wodzinska, Agnieszka

Abstract:

This text theorises with the figure of the “office siren” which emerged from TikTok fashion trends in early 2024 and transformed into more nebulous formulations, like those of femme office workers conducting business from bodies of water. I explore how these short ambiguous videos relate not only to feminist performance art of the late 1970s and 1980s but also what they tell us about gender performativity online, corporate culture, and environmentalism.

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https://networkcultures.org/longform/2024/09/23/drown-your-laptop/

Uncontrolled Keywords:

digital cultures, TikTok, social media, platformisation, microtrends, trend, analysis, feminism, performance, performance art, feminist art, environmentalism, retro, siren, mythology, archetypes

School/Academic Area:

School of Innovation and Technology

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23 September 2024

Published

6 September 2024

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Published

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All publications of this series are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) Source: https://networkcultures.org/longform/about/

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Date Deposited:

01 Oct 2024 12:37

Last Modified:

18 Mar 2026 10:07

Deposited By:

Agnieszka Wodzinska

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